Louis Pomey, who although being principally a painter, translated foreign texts for Pauline's songs. A mystery is attached to Pomey because it was alleged that on one of her foreign trips, Varvara Turgeneva, Ivan's mother, had taken a lover and given birth to Louis Pomey, making him Turgenev's half-brother. Whether this was true or not, Pomey was always very close to him and became friend of the Viardots. In November
(1864) Pomey married Jeanne Julie Faultier, young woman with rather delicate health. Turgenev was present at the wedding and wrote to Pauline from Passy, where he was staying with his daughter, telling her that the bride was in good hands. ("
The Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia: The Years of Grace, 1863-1910, p. 43")
